Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Carl,
Unfortunately we looked at the bottom 50% of our own flying and decided that isn't ours. That was our decision, negotiated at our bargaining table.
I don't know about Delta, but that is totally inaccurate at NWA. Our scope cave-ins have all been due to either bankruptcy, or a strike where the company made it clear they would rather see the company die without it. I wished we would have called their bluff and see if they went ahead and killed the company. A majority of the pilots relented under the pressure. We absolutely NEVER
decided that flying wasn't ours.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
To find unity we fist have to educate our membership and leadership as to why it is imperative. Why every member is power at the bargaining table.
That's over simplistic in my opinion. The Delta membership is not the problem anymore...if it ever was. The other part of the unity equation that you're ignoring is that ALPA national has decided that their future is tied to the regionals because they've calculated that's where the growth is. Also, the lifers at the regionals know they are never going to a major and will continue to strive to gain more and more flying.
How do we handle those two parts of the unity equation?
Carl